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An efficient genetic algorithm for single row facility layout

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The single row facility layout is the NP-Hard problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. Owing to its computational complexity, researchers have developed several heuristics to obtain good quality solutions. In this paper, we present a genetic algorithm called GENALGO to solve large single row facility layout problem instances. Our algorithm uses standard genetic operators and periodically improves the fitness of all individuals. Our computational experiments show that our genetic algorithm yields high quality solutions in spite of starting with an initial population that is randomly generated. Our algorithm improves the previously best known solutions for the 19 instances of 58 benchmark instances and is competitive for most of the remaining ones.

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Kothari, R., Ghosh, D. An efficient genetic algorithm for single row facility layout. Optim Lett 8, 679–690 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-012-0605-2

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